At our hospital they normally discharge you after 6 hours if youve had a natural birth and all is fine with baby etc especially if its your second. However i stayed in 24 hours as i had GBS so they had to make sure jack didnt have it. TBH with hospitals being so short of beds id be surprised if they let u stay more than 24 hours.

hi hunobviously it all depends on how things go and what sort of birth you have and how feeding goes.my waters went more than 24hrs before he was born so i had to stay in 2 nights for him to be monitored. some of the other ladies on my ward had problems feeding so stayed in a couple of days too - they wanted to stay in longer but were told they were fine and had to go home. the lady next to me was quite sore and felt she could not get in a car etc, and they let her stay an extra night.

the bed on the other side of me though was filled twice when i was in - by second time mums and they were in and out in no time!!

It depends on your birth etc as the others have said! My waters went early monday morning, got checked tuesday and sent back home and then induced weds morning. They never let me stay in then although I would have preferred to!

I gave birth 730pm in the evening so obviously had to stay overnight. However, I had feeding issues so they were trying to keep me in. However I refused as I hated it there and left in the evening when she was 1 day old!

I went in on saturday evening because my waters went. (I was 33 weeks) stayed overnight and was told I would probably leave the hospital and come back at about 37 weeks to be induced. They didn't let me go and stayed in till thursday evening when I was induced and lo was born friday morning very early. I had severe lack of sleep because of all the snoring women and being woken up by the staff for tests at stupid o'clock in the morning. I pushed to leave the hospital on sunday and they did let me go with lo. And by god, that night was the best night in ages. I was so shattered I actually slept through lo crying. (oh went out to feed him) Unfortunately I had to go back in on monday due to jaundice and stayed there till friday. So all in all I stayed in for two weeks and it were the longest days of my life.

When I was on the ward I could not sleep. All four babies where taking to crying in turns, the mums where snoring. When I went in on the monday I got a private room (very bright incubator next to me, so even at night it was almost daylight in the room) I slept better and was able to sleep inbetween his feeds. By that time I was feeding expressed milk with a bottle, so after every feed I expressed, sterilised and cleaned up everything and went back to sleep. He slept for 2 hours tops and the whole thing started again.

I was so glad to be out and to be able to share the nights with oh. When I was in the midwifes were swamped and they barely had the time at night to help. Next time I want to be out asap. If something happends, you can always go back. But not being able to sleep was terrible

my waters went at 32 weeks so i went down to be checked over. while i was waiting to be seen my contractions started and i gave birth to dd 3 hours later. i stayed in that night and 2 more. dd was born on the thursday night an don the saturday they told me there was no rush that i could stay as long i wanted to as dd was in scbu.

HiI had a c-section after failure to progress due to the size of my little monster and ended up staying in for 6 days as there was some query with the sodium in tylers blood. Was horrific as every night the 3 other ladies on my ward snored constantly, then the babies started so woke tyler up. Ended up roaming the corridors every night for 5 nights...

I had a planned section and the boys were on SCBU. Our hospital allow you to stay for 10 days and I was very lucky that the boys were discharged on day 10 to come home with me. However, as horrid as it may sound, I was coming home on day 10 anyway! It would have been awful to leave them, but I wasnt with them anyway and, although the hospital were lovely, I hated it. I was the only lady on my ward without her babies (which was horrific). There were ladies who slept through LO crying, those who sat and cried themselves (I was one of these by the way - I spent 3 days in constant tears!), and those who just didnt seem to have a clue what to do (one lady's baby cried ALL night and she was so upset, I really felt for her!)

I was all prepared to spend 6am - 12am in SCBU then go home to sleep but thankfully I didnt have to! I was desperate to go home, but waited the 10 days as the boys were doing so well and it was much nicer to take them home with me.

Sorry, ive rambled but I would say that if all goes well, you really will be more comfortable at home xxx

i had ds by em c section on the saturday in hospital, on sunday i transferred to the birth centre (oh cld stay and better breastfeeding help, private room etc) on the wednesday i went home, but the following tuesday i went back into the birth center for a further 2 days+nights for some extra breastfeeding help (again OH came with). personally i wanted to be out of the hospital asap, but i cld quite happily live in the birth centre forever, was lovely there, like a free travel lodge lol, they provide them mum with food and partners can get what they like and bring it in whether thaht be takeaway or use the microwave to reheat a homemade meal or a readymade meal altho i know thats not relevant to u as ur Oh will be looking after ur other lo xx

My hos like u to stay in two nights but on my first night the baby next to me screamed all night when my lo was being angle so that was really hard to hear.(And the mum slep throgh it I just won't to pick baby up n give big hug) so the next day I beged to go home n they finnaly let me!but only becouse I had natural birth.I hated the hos so much plus the mw where not every nice or helpfull with bf ect so just won't to b home and have some quite!Heidi n heidi 6weeks 1day xx

Hey, i guess it all depends on how the birth goes and everything. When i had my 2nd just a little over 9 months ago i had him just b4 9 and was in the car on the way home by midnight as i just wanted to come home and see my toddler and also i didnt wana leave oh but i could have stayed in for a few days if i wanted too xxxx